#mean

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again. ↗

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#anyone #doing #else #fact #i

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#always #made #means #men #nowadays

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#could #feel #go #good #healthy

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#me #meaning #personal #place #work

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced. ↗

— Betty Hill

#divorced #family #i #kids #later

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#come #design #mean #much #nothing

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive. ↗